The use case is:
I want to programatically control vlc or some other media player via DBus from python as a screenlet. So in order for the other media player to register with DBus, I need to "unhook" ...

Does anyone know what configuration file is modified when I change settings within this area of the system settings?
I keep choosing my Logitech USB Headset as the soundard, and, when I hit apply, it ...

I just wanted to ask, if it is normal, that I get around 72° C when playing music in Rhythmbox, if the temperature in complete idle is around 52°. The CPU Usage of the player is around 5%.
I have an ...

My keyboard has the multimedia keys on the function keys, with FN+F6 to play/pause etc. The problem is these don't work in my music player (clementine) after rebooting. If I go into the Preferences ...

I have configurated the front mic as imput in sound settings, and it works fine, but after I restart the PC (no always the first time, but sooner or later it happens) the PC doesn't capture anything ...

I've got as far as connecting this keyboard using the manual bluetooth configuration - I assume that since 11.10 is detecting it (from lsusb) then the keyboard configuration is correct. Fowever, only ...

Whenever I try to play a video or song, on YouTube or using Banshee, the media plays as if it's in fast forward. Everything ran fine, videos and songs played normal, all hardware worked fine, and then ...

Is there a command line podcatcher that lets me configure some podcasts to be downloaded automatically and asks before downloading if other podcasts where updated depending on the configuration for ...

I have been searching for a way to utilize multiple sound cards to play the same audio at the same time. My laptop has Ubuntu 11.10 x64 (3.0.0-12) w. ALSA 1.0.24. I have a pair of USB speakers that ...

I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and install ubuntu-restricted-extras but Totem player still unable to play .mp4 and .mov files it also search for suitable plugins and no packages found.
VLC media player can ...

I'm looking for a media manager that will display and play movies and TV shows and will read data included in mp4 and m4v files.
So far I've looked at XBMC, Moovida and Boxee and all of these seem to ...

The title says it all. I downloaded and installed Minitube from repositories. The program's unable to play or download any video.
Secretly though it did play one video the first time for the length ...

I wanted to play media files on Banshee but it seems there is a huge problem in it. All the music gets loaded but when I select a song and press play button nothing happens. More than that when I try ...

For RTMP, I already tried RTMPDump. It's very difficult and complicated to use in the terminal. Is there a GUI-based alternative?
For MMS, I already tried Firefox's plugin, and some download manager. ...

I'm trying to mount a DVD video that has no kind of copy protection on it. It plays just fine in Windows and in DVD players. If I insert a regular data DVD it automounts just fine and I can browse it. ...